> consider that everything the resume is supposed to do [...] is all stuff they are going to do again in phone screens, the interviews, and the reference checks
Not just things you need to do again, but they might even ask you to solve an arbitrary problem you've never seen before in 40 minutes, with someone watching and not helping, knowing your livelihood is on the line if you fail. And they have a hard rule that states you must create a working program, so even if you can express your ideas and make it very clear you'd get to a correct and efficient solution eventually, if it doesn't run in under 40 minutes, you're out. It's a mini coding competition, and you are set up to fail.
I recently got laid off from a job that actually boosted my resume quite nicely, the work made me a specialist that triggered several big name companies to reach out for this niche thing. I was told multiple times that I'd effectively passed 80% of the interview sessions, but their tests, for whether I'd been able to memorize all common algo approaches and my ability to regurgitate them in a short amount of time, were beyond my abilities.
Not just things you need to do again, but they might even ask you to solve an arbitrary problem you've never seen before in 40 minutes, with someone watching and not helping, knowing your livelihood is on the line if you fail. And they have a hard rule that states you must create a working program, so even if you can express your ideas and make it very clear you'd get to a correct and efficient solution eventually, if it doesn't run in under 40 minutes, you're out. It's a mini coding competition, and you are set up to fail.
I recently got laid off from a job that actually boosted my resume quite nicely, the work made me a specialist that triggered several big name companies to reach out for this niche thing. I was told multiple times that I'd effectively passed 80% of the interview sessions, but their tests, for whether I'd been able to memorize all common algo approaches and my ability to regurgitate them in a short amount of time, were beyond my abilities.